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The cultivation medium of Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942 has been developed, which consists of many inorganic and metal ingredients with a specific composition, known as the BG-11 medium. In this work, we analyzed the concentration effect of each ingredient and identified the absolutely essential components in BG-11 medium for cyanobacteria growth using the concentration gradient generator chip (CGGC) fabricated by MEMS technology. As shown by our results, removal of the individual component sodium nitrate, potassium phosphate, or magnesium sulfate from the BG-11 medium led to severe growth inhibition of Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942. Contrary to our expectation, increasing concentration of the crucial ingredients showed either insignificant or negative impact on cell growth. Overall, standard growth could be achieved without supplementation of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) disodium, sodium carbonate, or sodium citrate to the culture medium. Further improvement of the CGGC-based microfluidic system based on this preliminary study may broaden its application range to analyze more complicated correlations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/mi6111454","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,16]],"date-time":"2015-11-16T05:40:47Z","timestamp":1447652447000},"page":"1755-1767","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["Using a Microfluidic Gradient Generator to Characterize BG-11 Medium for the Growth of Cyanobacteria Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Chih-Chun","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Nanoengineering and Microsystems, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Rex","family":"Wen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Claire","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6631-780X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Da-Jeng","family":"Yao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Nanoengineering and Microsystems, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"464","DOI":"10.1109\/TAP.2005.863409","article-title":"Integration of packaged RF MEMS switches with radiation pattern reconfigurable square spiral microstrip antennas","volume":"54","author":"Huff","year":"2006","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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